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Tax treatment of deferred grain cash tickets under review

Grain growers in Canada who take deferred cash purchase tickets for crops are being asked whether it’s time to get rid of the rule that allows income from those tickets to be put off to the following tax year. Tucked into federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget on Wednesday was an announcement of public consultation,

The joint GFO/SGS Canada lab opened in Guelph in July 2016. (GFO/SGS Canada video image)

Crops

Ontario cereals lab filling nationwide demand

By GFM Network News, John Greig March 23, 2017

Grain Farmers of Ontario and SGS Canada took a risk in creating the Grains Analytical Testing Laboratory, as a partnership bringing wheat testing to a province with a comparatively small wheat crop. After eight months, and a first harvest of wheat analytics, the Guelph lab’s manager says they have found there is interest in the

Crops, News

China should be focus of food trade efforts

The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance says China is our biggest and best bet for future growth

By Alex Binkley March 22, 2017

Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay departed on a trade mission to India and Vietnam in late February, just as farm export groups called for more attention on China. The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance says in a new report that China purchased $5.6 billion worth of Canadian farm and food exports in 2016 and has become the

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Canadian hog prices to rise by summer

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News March 17, 2017

CNS Canada — Cheap prices for feed and a softer Canadian dollar have helped keep Canadian hog prices aloft so far in 2017. “Right now producers are looking at $180 to $184 a pig,” said Andrew Dickson, general manger of Manitoba Pork. “Prices are looking pretty good for June, July, August.” By July, he said,

Cereals, News

NFU investigating farmers’ grain-grading complaints through survey

The Canadian Grain Commission says if farmers don’t like the grade being offered, ask the commission to grade it

By Allan Dawson March 17, 2017

The National Farmers Union (NFU) has launched a survey into grain-grading complaints from western farmers in the wake of what the farm group claims is “the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) reduced regulatory role.” “As a grassroots farm organization the NFU is starting to hear repeated stories of grain farmers being dissatisfied with their treatment by

Our History

Wild oat chemical control options

Our History: March 1974

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 16, 2017

Your wild oat chemical control options in 1974 included Avadex, Treflan, Avenge (barley only), Endaven (wheat), Asulox (flax) and Carbyne, a post-emergent product from Gulf. In our March 7 issue, an article by Elmer Stobbe of the University of Manitoba discussed the “billion-dollar problem” of wild oats on the Prairies, and reviewed the chemical options

Crops

Ameropa to shut malting barley trading firm Interbrau

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 16, 2017

Hamburg | Reuters — Swiss-based grain trading group Ameropa AG said Thursday it will end its involvement in malting barley trading and close its Hamburg-based malting barley trading house Interbrau GmbH at the end of 2017. “This decision is mainly driven by the fact that the malting barley market did not develop as Ameropa had

Crops, Weather

Feed market awaits influx of spring-threshed grains

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News March 14, 2017

CNS Canada — As spring slowly approaches, western Canadian feed dealers are warily eyeing the amount of grain that may be left over on Prairie fields. “There’s a bit of concern about how much spring-threshed grain we may see here in the next few weeks,” said Allan Pirness of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. “That’s

Soybeans are proving very popular with growers, but they’re still at risk for frost.

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Soybeans poised to beat out wheat, barley

Planting estimates for soybeans are running around two million acres for the coming season

By Richard Kamchen March 14, 2017

It’ll take quite a lot to convince Manitoba farmers to hold off on expanding soybean acres in favour of growing more wheat and barley for milling and malt channels. Farmers packed a hall at the 2017 CropConnect conference to hear a soybean presentation, and there’s no doubt provincial growers are more gung-ho than ever to

Bill Legg, a veteran barley breeder at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Brandon Research Centre, is retiring soon. His work was recognized by the Prairie Grain Development Committee March 1 in Winnipeg.

News

Veteran AAFC barley breeder Bill Legge retiring

AC Metcalfe was a huge hit with farmers, maltsters and brewers and one of his best-known career achievements

By Allan Dawson March 10, 2017

Bill Legge, the plant breeder who developed AC Metcalfe, Western Canada’s most popular two-row malting barley for around 15 years, is retiring. Legge has been breeding barley at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) Brandon Research Centre for 30 years, Tom Fetch, an AAFC plant pathologist and chair of the Prairie Grain Development Committee (PGDC), said

Daily Network News

ICE Canada Weekly: U.S. biodiesel mandate will be a boon for canola

CBOT weekly: Planted area in focus

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Western Canadian bids move upward

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